as israelis choose their next parliamentary head widespread apathy over netanyahu is likely reelection and we've taken on the orthodox look at one of the most contentious issues of the campaign the expansion of settlements into palestinian territories. as france and germany celebrate their friendship with a show of unity looks likely to stumble over widening divisions between the e.u. true powerhouses. and rock obama kicks off his second term in office with promises to back to mock procedure process with global sparking concerns america's intervention policies are not likely to change during his coming years and on.

my from our studios in moscow you're watching r t with me and you so now it's good to have you with us two pm now in the russian capital our top story and it's officially decision time for israel with people across the country heading to the polls in a snap parliamentary election but the overwhelming sentiment is that the outcome will be no surprise benjamin netanyahu victory seems a foregone conclusion this despite discontent with his policies that many believe have led to economic hardship a lack of progress in peace negotiations with palestine and growing international isolation now polls suggest the prime minister will head the government for a third time analysts say that's largely due to the limited time for campaigning

and the failure of the opposition to unite behind a single strong candidate. one of the most pressing issues during this election campaign and the one that's believed to have secured netanyahu a good share of his vote is the expansion of israeli settlements now one has one man as dare to take a tongue in cheek work at the problem that's divided opinion in israel and seen in it widely criticized by the international community filmmaker newmark comer known for his prank documentaries reached out to the set their community. my name is ne more than israeli citizen living here among. you one housing crisis at all time high the thing is there is another one in jerusalem but i can also live among our allies and i think i can get them much better deal. over the. would like to see the flood to buy i'm here with some investors from england. we

want to invest in this area because i'm hearing the property value might go up in that one flat is one million shekels is fatah's flat in the building that this whole new area called zero eight and one begins after those heels despite a few haters in the us almost only political parties support the building and selling of charming flats on palestinian land the latest talk location. east of jerusalem hello i'm here to show your client wants to buy property in this area is a big you want investor understand it's the only building currently built but if i can show him more. hills more outposts. and no one except. two state solution who cares as long as the property is cheap is a jew man leaving london i want to cash in on my jewishness and like be in touch with my roots. so it's all jewish yeah yeah any known jewish parts

because. not. many people say he is not being constructive in the peace process but look how many settlements it constructed i'm hoping. to build a new settlement. this is the future of israel i believe and i'm afraid that if i buy the house and i get a document saying it's mine someday palestinians can scum and say no it's not yours because i keep listening to that in the. see. there's history. there's just one thing and. it's funny how those small actions had like international meaning. the moving of stones like monumentally. it's like messing with international law.

is the most disputed area you name it notice it just because people told us. but he says it is like a good place to build a new flat you think they'll be like because my friends want to be like to buy something before we even constructed i was coming up and. it says this is the fail stone being set for the new god willing of the one facing the holy capital of his i pay so much money for rent in london in one in london and here in one and in the big city thing is cheaper and more comfortable it all starts to sell all of us is ours. you can look down and palestinians this is the new area being built up as if you want i just call this real estate is called three days and all the flats in this part of town and i say no to city for certain it will never be evacuated today selling more and more cleaners of the city

and all the bills are you should be jewish label. me. i want to see an. agent to get to the all the legalities. of. you selling your house spain a chance and. my house and my house. talked

to the filmmaker himself nimrod commer joins us live now from london thanks for being with us. is this about the settlement issue or is it about real estate was this a way to make a point about which one of the issues really. want to make the point of how is it gives huge benefits and huge subsidies subsidies to people who go to a lot of settlements you want is about to be just a police station you can see in the film and nobody really goes get the mindset of the religious ones and the normally just want to just come there for the deal and i mean they don't even think about politics for them it's just buying and selling and like they told me that if someone is going to a victim which they don't believe but if people are going to happen they're going

to even make more money because the government will pay them compensation for the victims that is what i got this straight so if the territory if per se a two state solution was achieved and the territory was given back to the palestinians israelis would make money is that correct that you're saying yeah like the gaza settlements of all the jewish settlers got huge amounts of money and fully floats inside these well so it's a win win situation i mean if you buy a float over there you get huge discounts if you've got many kids even more discounts you don't even have to be religious. it's like actually the fox will build another one for us which is the jewish only west bank cities and if you just go there and you buy a flat you can sell it to the jewish americans so did you actually buy into this i mean i bought money with me and i didn't go all the way there but just got the best deal and i almost bought it because why or what why didn't i it was such if

it's such a good deal you can make lots of money presumably. yeah i mean i am i am jewish actually not. so not jewish not really. so not all the way into that but i did have my stepfather with me pretending to be like a disguise who's got loads of money and one thing to escape the one. postcode. it's like you know what i live in no no it's also what you want in a payloads ok what are the settlers who have bought their actually think i mean are they happy with their investments you talk about these religious and nonreligious what do you mean by that yes so some of the people i talked to never going to give up their house like the ninety's the heavily. into the settlement of the entire west bank and they told me that the jordan is also the kind of part

of the jewish state just cool and like the other ones are just like non-religious people who used to live in the you know these early election is all about social justice kind of the whole. the whole like housing prices so pretty much if you want to live cheap in this world that's the only option if you want if you don't like leave affordable but you have to go to the west bank and i mean let's talk about some of the characters that you the people real people i should say characters that you met in the film one woman you asked if the length of the horizon was jewish they answered. yes although clearly demonstrate that it was palestinian land another woman talked about how jordan is just renting the land do these settlers actually believe that. yes they do and they're not even they don't even really go to the synagogue to march but. i think the place even like they. like. two hundred quid two hundred pound pound

a month and you know they just look they have this amazing valley they see the jordan river to see the sea and somehow there's no palestinians in that area because it's like the empty area between them our line but let him and the thing is . to get a good story it can different kind of journalism so you tend to be one of them and who did anybody kind of holding that anybody call you out did anybody say you got to be kidding me get out of here no i had like a small car like on my head and they were like i mean it's not even i mean nobody really got it just to create sympathy and to i mean you have to be on the other side you have to be even more extreme bend them like like even not acknowledging the palestinian people even not to be noticing them and finding that just last week the palestinians built an outpost outpost and they got the victim to mediately but not this big ones in the. fields which are about to be built in another jewish

town maybe dissolution is like to just let everyone lived you know where. there is a big thing you know like imagine if all the palestinians would have vote in the israeli election today what would have happened if we could just let everyone vote until the situation is like resolved but i'm not sure many israeli voters would agree with that we of course will be keeping track of what happens with that election taking place in israel it is expected that netanyahu will come out on top i thank you very much for your time actor and filmmaker and you might come or live with us on the line from london and if you missed his film we will be airing it out today here on r.t. thanks for your time. in other news outcry building to militants who claim to be behind the deadly hostage taking in algeria are promising more attacks on westerners in response to french intervention in mali but at least thirty seven foreign nationalists including french british and american were killed

during the terrorist siege of a gas plant that was stormed by algerian forces over the weekend many of the militants reportedly came from another african state libya using arms provided to rebels there by foreign sponsors during the revolution two years ago libya has been in disarray since the western backed toppling of the gadhafi regime resulting in a security vacuum and artie's probably boyko explains the recent surge of violence in africa is seen as a result of western states previous involvement in the region's. very very. you wanted peace you wanted freedom you wanted economic progress france great britain europe will always stand by the libyan people. but a regional crisis probably wasn't what mr sarkozy anticipated when he was spearheading the military operation to topple moammar gadhafi although the former french president can't say that he hadn't been warned personally i play

a significant role in establishing peace in those regions of africa should the situation in libya be unstable al qaida will establish its rule a lot and will return and libya will be another afghanistan terrorists will flood to europe cut to paris and almost two years later markets after his words could well be ringing in me is of need what i saw was the successor francois hollande having just sent troops to mali france's new leader could well be learning that every action has a reaction. sickness and not only do the french intervention in libya not help the democrat decision process which is what they said they were after but if actively opened up the floodgates for weapons stockpiles and fighters to leave the country and go south of the border this is no more to mali where the recently deployed french military were reportedly stunned by the technologically advanced weapons that are in the hands of their adversaries nobody seems to think that perhaps

organized groups come from somewhere other than mali it seems they came across a nearby libyan border libya is as i say central to all this problem because all the a lot of weapons it's been produced by the collapse of the darfur region but also by the complete failure to establish any kind of real state you have essentially also crating in different parts of libya and you have across much of this hour a situation where people have arguments where very little civic sense so bribery and corruption or grabs is common place gadhafi was bitter opponent all right it was ahmed groups whatever his faults and they now have the ability to use the chaos in libya to provide the base the first effects where immediate the hostage crisis in algeria said to be in retaliation for the french offensive in mali has already claimed the lives of dozens of civilians taken captive and i'm frightened of terrorism this is always been a problem for france whether it's iraq or sarkozy this is just i'm french i was

born here and live here my culture is french my origins are there and i was there like another country telling me what to do. you know we're scared of anything that threatens us. france's global allies are showing signs of being sucked into the mali conflict british prime minister david cameron has already acknowledged that battling radical insurgency in the region could take decades rather than months and all this so that france can remedy the knock on effects from its libyan intervention. r t paris. now in the face of a possible long and bloody conflict france's other ally germany has refused to fly ammunition to mali to help french troops the decision is seen as a test of their friendship amid the pomp and partying in berlin to celebrate fifty years of their post-war alliance but the very duet which was supposed to be at the

heart of the european union is also proving to have deep divisions on some other core issues as artie's peter all over reports. well it's certainly a meeting that's filled with pomp and circumstance but they as they celebrate the formal icing of the friendship between former foes but what we are seeing though is that the hoping that the celebration can paper over some of the divisions between europe's power couple of course france and germany the two major economies and the well the two biggest voices in europe really when it comes to how to tackle the eurozone crisis all around wants to see more spending to promote growth where is. stuck to her guns saying it's only through austerity that any kind of problems in the eurozone can be perhaps fixed now there's also rising concern here in germany over the state of the french economy the german people and german finance is

looking to shoulder thinking well we don't want to get caught up a catch a cold if you'll recall and he sneezes it was a expected that the french economy went into recession at the end of twenty twelve hours also when it comes to matters of defense military matters germany and france not agreeing either front certainly pursuing a policy of intervention we've seen not in libya we're also seeing that right now in mali where is germany they have said that they were going to contribute any of their troops in this was backed up by. the finance minister here in germany and a key member of a christian democrat party when he said that germany didn't want to be a major player in foreign policy said going on to say that well after hitler and auschwitz how could they be a major player so there is a difference there between how france views its place in the wider world and how germany does based on well the two countries relative history so this meeting all smiles and handshakes however that there are some deep underlying cracks in the

relationship between europe's power couple. well we'll bring you expert analysis on the french german french ship after a short break don't go away. there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people with hiv aids lives within a year of a diagnosis of. over sixty two percent of those patients i diagnosed with aids this is a problem that frankly is substantially preventable it was like the big elephant in the room and nobody wanted to talk about they were really good public health campaigns that people were really focused on this problem you certainly should be able to hold a lot less a child be a lot less human suffering. we speak your language i mean some of the will not be in. the news programs and documentaries and spanish what matters to you. i want to turn to bangalore stories.

here. the spanish find out more visit. there with r.t. live from moscow back to one of our top stories today the franco german celebrations of their postwar friendship as promised let's cross live now to the german capital and talk to judith think of our political scientists at the free university of berlin thanks for being with us fifty years ago the french of force between france and germany and it was seen really as the foundation stone of the

european union how far away is europe from that foundation today. you know i don't know for that far away from that foundation now as with as with any partnership or political friendship as some call it there are certain ups and downs but what really brings the european union forward in this franco german relationship is that with their opposing views they often do find a compromise that then is supported by all and is stable within the european union but during his own like election campaign french president along promised to provide a counterweight to berlin's austerity policies we're not seeing any other remedies being proposed do you think he has softened his stance. well i mean certainly that was something that was very important for him in his election campaign and it was an important aspect in getting him elected and he has had this minor success of having the growth pact added to the fiscal pact but you know i think that. there

are very focused on there are thirty politics and i don't think there'll be any wind in that regard but there are economists are so wide apart doesn't that have any effect on the strength of their relations you know it might there actually has been a shift of balance since the end of the cold war before the cold war it was germany that carried the economic weight and france that carried the political weight now there's been a shift towards political weight for germany as well at least from a french perspective so that certainly has made cooperation more difficult in. germany doesn't seem like it's rushing to support france in terms of defenses like the intervention in mali france admits it's underestimated the threat there how would you explain burlington's restraint on this issue. well i mean the major factor in this is of course germany's history you know germany traditionally since since the end of world war two has not really rushed into military conflict is

really is really important and it has backing in the german population for not doing so and especially this year i'm going to makan is up for reelection in the fall it would be very difficult for her to change the stand so i don't think we'll be seeing any movement in the short term but it really does depend on how the situation in mali developed you think there are political scientists at the free university of berlin thanks for your analysis thanks for having on the show. second time's the charm right while during his inauguration speech in washington president barack obama forcefully laid out the priorities for his second term in office and with the special stress on backing democracy around the world his pledges have already led to concerns of further u.s. involvement in foreign states artie's going to camp explains in his inaugural speech president obama sort of for spawn it to those who have been wondering whether the u.s. will continue on the track of interventions here is what he said we were new those

institutions that extend our capacity to manage crisis abroad for no one has a greater stake in a peaceful world than its most powerful nation. we support democracy from asia to africa from the americas to the middle east because our interests and our conscience compel us to act on behalf of those who long for freedom so from asia to africa or from the americas to the middle east that pretty much covers the whole world so we could potentially see interventions by the united states pretty much anywhere and one wonders how different it is from george w. bush's speeches about advancing freedom and democracy in the world which the u.s. has been doing mainly with bombs but president obama's remarks do not come as a surprise to those who've been following his policies in the last four years which included the u.s. in gauging in undeclared war so serious targeted assassinations program in different countries and the u.s. making a so-called pivot to asia expanding its military prepays its presence in asia pacific

to counter the rising influence of china's it's very interesting i've been listening to debase all kinds of panels and national media here about the future of u.s. foreign policy is about what the president should be or will be doing and there's a general sense that of course the u.s. will be intervening wherever it can that's the idea that's being perpetuated it's not even a matter of debate really president obama signs off on a kill list every week and sets up new drone bases overseas and somehow his foreign policies are not perceived as aggressive and do not steer a debate here at home there's also this phony argument that you hear every now and then that president obama is not half as aggressive as george w. bush would have been or mitt romney would have been made and it seems there is a notion that as long as there are no u.s. boots on the ground as long as wars are fought either with a remote control or through proxies it's a success and it's not perceived as aggressive again president obama's hit and run

style libya intervention was touted as a success then the u.s. ambassador died and it became more difficult to brag about libya and ignored the mess that we be it turned into so it very much seems like it's not about the president's actions it's about perceptions president obama talks beautifully and smiles beautifully how could he be aggressive so perceptions are the reality of politics here. openly criticizing barack obama make you win a whole lot of trouble and r.t. dot com we've got the story of how one grammy nominated rapper was shown the door for delivering. tribe against the american president. in a few minutes we take a look at how thirteen percent of americans can make up half the aids cases in the country stay with r.g.b. .

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